Book
Category
Books
Date
1818
Materials
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3100495
Summary
Bound volume of The poetical works of William Collins, Thomas Gray, William Falconer, and Thomas Day.
Bibliographic description
Vols. 1-36 only of the set. Not indigenous. With 10pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end of volume. Ephemera: loosely inserted scrap of paper (used as a marker?) before Falconer's works. Provenance: Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Pencil notes in Norris's hand: (1) on vol. 1 front free endpaper: Sexton 8/9 50 £9.; (2) on vol. 1 front flyleaf: Cat V.9.b.1 [changed in the same hand to Cat V.4.b.1]. Previous bookseller's pencil note on vol. 1 front free endpaper: 36 Vs contemporary Morocco c/mn/ £8/8/- . Historic shelfmark: B.1.24. Binding: Nineteenth-century dark blue straight-grained morocco over boards on three raised cords of which one is false; covers are decorated with triple gilt fillet and arched roll tool with an inner double blind fillet and foliage tool, gilt tooling to corners of board edges, gilt floral and foliage roll on board inner, gilt edges, gilt spine tooling and gilt title: 'British Poets 21. Collins. Gray. Falconer. Day.'